Infinite Realms

Infinite Realms 6MMO

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Infinite Realms F2P

Infinite Realms visual design takes a lot of cues from popular sci-fi console games like Mass Effect, but the artwork is excellent and the game itself is beautiful to look at, full of visually distinct buildings and intricate animations. Even parts of the GUI are attractive.

As in most strategy games you're tasked with building up your resources, expanding your territory, and conquering both NPC foes and other players. Since Infinite Realms is a sci-fi game, you're basically trying to conquer a planet for your colonists to inhabit. You have the option of conquering areas that improve production of particular resources. Heroes that you hire to lead vast sums of troops. In a nice touch, your Hero tends to warn you about the probable outcomes of battle before you initiate them.

GAMEPLAY
Most games that descend from Travian suffer from feeling a bit too identical, but Infinite Realms breaks that mold simply by dropping the medieval theme and adding in a few new gameplay mechanics that fit its sci-fi theme. The still art and the design of all the little buildings and ships really helps Infinite Realms capture a player's imagination. Players who like their Facebook titles simple should probably give this one a pass, but if you like strategy then Infinite Realms has a lot to offer. There's not many true sci-fi games on Facebook, either.

QUESTS SYSTEM

Infinite Realms offers you a long quest tree to complete. The quests are well-designed and offer substantial rewards. It's also easy to depart from the quests early in the game and start focusing on whatever part of the game you like best, whether it's buying and selling resources with other players or building up your Heroes into efficient killing machines. You can have your Heroes attack other players' settlements, but the usual “newb protection” rules apply until you've been playing the game for awhile.

DESIGN
Infinite Realms is loaded with complex and interesting animations for the main outpost map area. The planet surface and your mothership are depicted a bit more abstractly, but a stylish GUI makes up for this. One of the game's few major features is that the GUI is so advanced. This is a game to join organized alliances and carefully micromanage their build times.